What happens when a clueless foreigner meets Williamsburg hipsters?VIDEO
A view of One World Trade Center rising comes courtesy of a tech company with international reach, based seven miles away in Hackensack, NJ.VIDEO
The author of "The Russian Debutante’s Handbook" and "Absurdistan" closes the PEN World Voices Festival with a pop culture quiz for Salman Rushdie.
Though Luc Sante grew up in New Jersey and New York City, the Belgium-born author and PEN World Voices Festival panelist has never stopped feeling like an outsider.
The Parisian writer discovered writing and her love of Nabokov in New York. The critically acclaimed writer is part of a free PEN World Voices Festival lunch talk.
Ticket sales, credit card swiping en route, screens for the visually impaired and iPads are just some of the new options.
A fourth-generation beekeeper, Andrew Coté produces honey gathered from rooftop hives in the three boroughs.VIDEO
Arturo O'Farrill leads the Grammy Award-winning Afro-Jazz Latin Orchestra. French guitarist Stephane Wremble plays locally and writes scores for Woody Allen's films. VIDEO
A photojournalist considers his forays into Chinatown free therapy, with inexpensive groceries as the take-away.
The battle for Zuccotti Park brought unprecedented attention to privately owned public spaces, property whose developers committed to making them open to the public, in exchange for a boost in the scale of the building they could construct. But it also overshadowed a basic question. Who is getting the better end of the deal for these spaces, property owners or the public?
